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Didn't Moderna already announce the seasonal flu vaccine programs on the research presentation day? Anyways, I really hope them to succeed, my mother didn't ta
by xiphias2 6y ago
Didn't Moderna already announce the seasonal flu vaccine programs on the research presentation day?
Anyways, I really hope them to succeed, my mother didn't take the flu vaccine ,,because it's risky and not that useful anyways''.
Moderna can make it much more efficient with less side effects, so I'm looking forward to it.
- deelowe 6y agoVaccines are interesting, but I'm much more intrigued by what this may mean for future therapeutics if their methods work well moving forward.
- Blahah 6y agoThere are a lot of companies (including mine) that have been working on personalised, target, combinatorial, interfering, etc. RNA therapeutics for quite some time. The success of RNA vaccines in the last year has really opened up the potential for pharma partnerships to test and develop these kinds of things. They have built out the infrastructure and there's a broad confidence and awareness of the basic concepts that was previously largely missing. Pharma just really loves proteins. The next 5 years are going to be incredibly exciting - it has the potential to fundamentally change humanity's relationship with many kinds of disease.
- pkaye 6y agoCan you name some of these companies or what to search form. I'm curious what things they are working on.
- xiphias2 6y agoI thought that only Moderna and BioNTech have the licences for mRNA vaccines. Astrazeneca is working together with Moderna on respiratory diseases, which is interesting for me, as I have asthma.
- xiphias2 6y agoActually vaccines can be used for lots of therapies. One example is using personalized vaccines for creating immune reaction for cancer by sequencing the cancer DNA and comparing it with non-cancerous DNA.
- deelowe 6y agoSorry. Yes, this is exactly what I was referring to.
- bluGill 6y agoYes, from the article you can see they have been working on this flu vaccine since 2019 - before covid. They haven't had as much money, so it takes longer.
- xiphias2 6y agoYeah, I guess now they can get infinite amount of money, so what matters is the amount of money they can spend efficiently.